Haruko Katou
Biography
Haruko Katou (加藤 治子 Katō Haruko, 24 November 1922 – 2 November 2015) was a Japanese actress.
Haruko Katou was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After attending the Shochiku Girls' Opera School, she joined the Shochiku Girls' Opera Company under the stage name Kyoko Mifune. She was signed by the film production company Toho in 1939, making her film debut in Hanatsumi Nikki that same year. In 1940, she joined the New Theatre Research Society, which had been founded by Hiroshi Akutagawa and Michio Katou, whom she married in 1946.
Movies 79
Howl's Moving Castle
as Madame Suliman (voice)
2004
Kiki's Delivery Service
as Old Lady (voice)
1989
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as Grandmother
1985
A Thousand and One Nights
as Genie (voice)
1969
Capone Cries a Lot
as Wife
1985
Sharaku
as Ofuji
1995
Spy Sorge
2003
Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement
as Takako
2003
Sweet Revenge
as Yoshiko Otsuka
1977
Pistol Opera
as Shizuka Orikuchi
2001
Tokyo Blackout
as Umeko Koide
1987
A Taxing Woman's Return
as Kinu Akabane
1988
The House of Wedlock
as Kuniko Sakazaki
1986
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
The Girl I Abandoned
1969
Gonza the Spearman
as Oyuki's nanny
1986
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2011
The Dancer
1989
Pilgrimage at Night
as Maid at Kyoto Inn
1959
About Her Brother
as Takano Kinuo
2010
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Body and Soul
as Ryosuke's mother
1997
Tasmania Story
1990
The Wild Daisy
as Kiku Saito
1981
Beyond the Shining Sea
as Tomie Kawamura
1986
A Brief Message from the Heart
1995
Kizu
1988
Love in the Mud
1977
Green Fruit
1964
Kura
1995
The Crying Wind
as Shiho Fujino
2004
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
as Shizu Nagayama
1984
East China Sea
as Rokurō's mother
1968
Bonds
as Mrs. Soga
1998
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
as Shizue Funada
1964
Sakurako wa warau: Last emperor ni shikakerareta ayashii onna no wana
1988
It's On Me
2009
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1962
Umi e, See You
as Eiji’s mother
1988
Seasonal Wind
1977
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
as Teruko
1940
Hobo General
1976
Blooming Again
as Sadako Tōyama
2004
The Scent of Honey between a Man and a Woman
1987
Gray Sunset
as Kikuyo Takano
1985
Deaths in Tokimeki
as Otae-san
1984
Till Tomorrow Is
1962
Chameleon
as Noriko Yamamura
2008
春日和
1967
First Love
1972
Wedding Day
1940
Something Like It
1981
The Mandarin Room
as Namiko
1956
The Gambling Nun
1971
Life Is Journey
2003
Caribe: Symphony of Love
as Fumiko Sawaki
1985
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964
Ghost Story: Flower House
1991
Secret Liaisons
1995
Sword and Flower
1972
Young Girls Are Everywhere
as Muneko Eda
1966
Camellia Gate
1964
Awakening
as Shigeko Miyasato
2007
Carefree Goddesses
1987
Enoken Enters the Ring
1940
Sky of Hope
as Toshiko
1942
若い川の流れ
1968
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Currents of Youth
as Girl in a tea room
1942
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1955
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939
Kaze no Sumu Ie
1989
Onna no Naka no Kaze
1988
Love Is a Hunter
as Keiko Asada
1976
Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
as Aunt
1971
Life Begins at 61
1941
Flower Picking Diary
1939
芭蕉布を織る女たち
as Narrator (voice)
1981TV Shows 15
Kimi no na wa
as 浜口徳枝
1991
Furuhata Ninzaburo
as Takayo Sasaki
1994
Time Limit Investigator
2006
Yumechiyo Nikki
1981
Veterinarian Dolittle
2010
Hito wa sore wo scandal to iu
as Shuzuko dojima
1978
Marriage Begins With A Lie
as Arishima Tsuneko
1993
突然の明日
1980
Ashura no Gotoku
1979
Fuyu no Undokai
1977
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993
Kyukei no Koya
as Takako Nogami
1978
森繁久彌の七人の孫
1987
Terauchi Kantarō Ikka
1974